Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...important meeting of the St. Paul's Society was held last evening. It was decided to give a social next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock in 10 Holworthy and Mr. Parker will speak informally on Oxford, where he studied for some time. The two socials last year were very successful and have encouraged the society to hold five this year, two of which have already been given...
...church and choir for a series of four sermons to be delivered during the winter by bishops and prominent men in the Episcopal Church. A committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. It was also voted to ask Dr. Donald of Trinity to give an address at the social which is to be held immediately after the Christmas recess...
...instruments are consequently strife, war, and death. But history shows that power has come more and more under the sway of justice, right and love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power and has softened the effect which it would have had if left perfectly unchecked...
Professor Peabody then considered the correlation of the different social questions. Just as all the forces of the physical world are known to be only manifestations of the same force, so the different social perplexities are only different phases of the question. They are closely bound together; one runs into another; one cannot be solved without solving to some extent the others; and one cannot be disregarded without doing some injustice to all the others. For example, the Indian question really touches the questions also of family, of charity, and of temperance. The question of private ownership of land means...
...last enquiry, we are led to ask what is this underlying force. Science has answered that in physical matters an eternal energy is behind all. Ethics tells us that behind all this social agitation is the moral instinct of men, trying to make itself felt, and yet this moral life in man is only a part of the perfected life in God. The social struggle is really a struggle to spiritualize our material conditions...